Technical Area: Telecommunications Management
Moderated By: Michael Slevin (), Any comments you may have are welcome.
All opinions are my own - I think.
Telecom Resources on the Internet
also their list of x-ref sites- Yahoo list: Top:Business and Economy:Companies:Telecommunications:Network Management
- Nice People maintaining Telecom Management sites include: (commercial sites mainly)
- Telecom's industry resources at Colorado
- Totaltele
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List of NM on the WWW maintained by CNOM - (strong on Euro Research)
- Instant Search Telecoms: network
management
- Strategic Information Resources - good links covering: book Store, Network Elements, Network
Applications, Network Management, Network Support, Network Architectures, Local Area Networking,
Telecom Regulation, Mobile Communications, Information Management, Special Reports
- Info on Internet, CMIP, TMN, different Telecom Technologies at DG-Technology
- The SimpleWeb - network management site (IETF,ISO,
ITU, Vendors, software, Research (universities,
on-line articles, books, ...)
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http://netman.cit.buffalo.edu or Network Management Server
(NMS) "Archive base for comp.dcom.net-management ... this site acts as a mirror
site for applications, utilities and FAQs pertinent to Network Management" - including NMS: The Books, The Mailing
Lists, Software, NMS: Papers - some good papers/theses here!
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Communications & Telecommunications
- Netplan
ApS. - Web servers - Strong on Mobile, tutorials, white papers
- Computer and Communication Organizations: Organizations, Cross References,, Programs and Projects, Cross
References, Usenet News Groups and FAQs, Standards, Cross References, and direct links to the sections on:
ADSL, ATM, CORBA, Ethernet, FCS, FDDI, Frame Relay, HIPPI, HTML, IEEE, IP Next Generation, ISDN,
Macintosh, MIME, MPEG, MPI, ODBC, SCI, SCSI, SMDS, SONET, STEP, TCP, Unix, USENET, Windows,
xDSL
- Computer and Communication Standards
- Telecommunication sites
- A Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - Bibliographies on Distributed Computing, Networking and
Telecommunications
- The list below is old and requires resorting!Telecom Information Resources
- Computer Society Publications
- ANSI: Other Resources
- Index to Multimedia Information Sources
- Communications Reference Links A useful set of links to FAQs etc. Nowadays mostly modems
- Yahoo - Computers and Internet
- Yahoo - Science:Engineering:Electrical Engineering:Telecommunications
- Network Management
(TU Braunschweig)
- Network Management Server
(NMS)
- NMS: Corporate WEBs
- ANSI Committee T1 Related Links Page
- OpenView Forum
- The Management in Open Systems
(MinoS) Group
Interesting Articles/Papers/Information - ( indicates a personally
recommended article)
TMN & OSS & General Telecommunications Mgmt.
Topic CORBA and Distributed Management
Topic Interworking Tools/Documents/Articles
- Telecom traffic Online
- Teletraffic Performance of GSM900/DCS1800 in Street Microcells
Radio planners often refer to the buildings in cities as "urban clutter," a nuisance they must
accommodate. A more appropriate attitude for personal communication systems is to utilize the
electromagnetic shielding offered by buildings to form microcells.
Raymond Steele, John Williams, Derek Chandler, Shirin Dehghan, and Aidan Collard
IEEE Communicaitons Magazine March 1995 - Vol. 33 No. 3
- Network Traffic Management
Traffic Management paper (uses HP products as examples). By Peter Phaal (commissioned by HP).
Abstract. (Note: This is available only as a Windows 3.1 HELP file.)
- Application of Neural Networks to telecoms Management (should be good)
Dr. Barry Ambrose
- A Taxonomy for Congestion Control Algorithms in Packet Switching Networks
Cui-Qing Yang and Alapati V. S. Reddy
- Teletraffic Considerations for Widespread Deployment of PCS
Edward H. Lipper and Michael P. Rumsewicz
- (
05/11/97) Traffic Management on-line papers from IEEE Communication Surveys
- Interesting PM research/development pages - NOTE: Internet Performance pages have moved to
here.
- ATM Performance Management papers (Papers and Preprints of George Kesidis et
al.) http://cheetah.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca/~kesidis/papers.html
Computer and Communication -links to the sections on: ADSL, ATM,
CORBA, Ethernet, FCS, FDDI, Frame Relay, HIPPI, HTML, IEEE, 1394, IP Next Generation, ISDN,
Macintosh, MIME, MPEG, MPI, ODBC, SCI, SCSI, SMDS, SONET, STEP, TCP, Unix,
USENET, Windows, xDSL
Topic: Information Modelling
- Note: for a list of defined information models, see above.
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Modeling Telecommunications Networks' Transmission Systems
The author discusses the status of SDH management standards and related matters such as
PDH, and
offers an overview of the information contained within these standards.
Massimo Fatato
IEEE Communicaitons Magazine March 1996 - Vol. 34 No. 3
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Access Network Management Modeling
The effective management of access networks presents challenges which are not found in other sectors
of the
telecommunications network.
Alex Gillespie and Simon Rees
IEEE Communicaitons Magazine March 1996 - Vol. 34 No. 3
- Q3 Object Models for the Management of Exchanges
The author discusses the Q3 object models from ETSI and ITU-T that are applicable to the
management of exchanges, with a perspective on relevant standards being developed in the near future
and possible new items for standardization.
Willi J. Petermueller
IEEE Communicaitons Magazine March 1996 - Vol. 34 No. 3
- See also The Simple Web at U of Twente
- (added 10/12/96) OO info
Topic: Service Management
Topic: Enterprise Management
Topic OSI Management
- "The OSI Network management Model" - a good basic introduction, IEEE
Communicaitons Magazine May 1993
- "System Management Information Modelling" OSI techniques and tools successfully model
telecommunicaitons equipment , networks and services. IEEE Communicaitons Magazine May 1993
- "CMISE Functions and Services" IEEE Communicaitons Magazine May 1993
- "Implementing OSI-Based Interfaces for Network Management", IEEE Communicaitons
Magazine May 1993
- The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on OSI, Marshall T. ROSE, Prentice-Hall, ISBN
0-13-643016-3
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SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP, William Stallings, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63331-0
- Layman's Guide to ASN.1 Burton S. Kaliski Jr. Postscript, 383K.Correction: In the examples for
section 5.6, IA5String, the tag for the IA5String type should be hexadecimal 16 in all cases, not 12.
- CMIS High Level Management API WG - A new C++ API for the CMIS service
- An on-line intro to SNMP/CMIP (http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~tkvallil/snmp.html)
- GDMO browser (some basic online information models) -
good for understanding! http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/cgi-bin/gbrowser.cgi
Topic SNMP Management etc.
- SNMP information models may be viewed here
- Internet Management information can be found at the U. of Twente
- SNMP->IDL translation tools available - see Software
- SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP, William Stallings, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63331-0
- IETF Network Management RFCs, Indexes to MIB definitions, Enterprise-specific MIBs etc. indexed
from U of Twente - also:
-
- SNMP FAQ: The FAQ specific for SNMP is split into two parts. comp.protocols.snmp (part 1),
comp.protocols.snmp (part 2)
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IETF documents, STDS, RFCs, FYIs etc. are available at http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg0intdoc.html
- authoritative
- The archive for comp.dcom.net-management - product info, etc. also the FAQs related to
Network Management (SNMP) - note that some info was last updated in 1995.
- Don't forget to check the newsgroup comp.protocols.snmp
- "Understanding SNMP MIBS". Rev. 1.1.6 Perkins, David T., September, 1993. 44 pages, postscript
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) - an explainatory paper from CISCO
- An on-line intro to SNMP/CMIP (http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~tkvallil/snmp.html)
- SNMP Enterprise MIBs ftp://ftp.isi.edu/mib/
- See also SNMP/RMON articles/tutorials in "Data Communications International"
- Draft Internet documents
- Tag Switching
- tools from MG-Soft
- SMIng - A new Structure of Management Information group
(set up 12/2000) http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/sming/
- OpenSource SNMP toolkit (formerly UCD's SNMP) - http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
- Linux SNMP Network Management Tools - http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html
- SNMP conformance testing tools from Interworking Labs, Inc. - http://www.iwl.com
- The Internet Report http://rgfsparc.cr.usgs.gov:8090/sysadmin/int_rpt.html
Topic TINA
Topic Java applied to Telecoms Management etc.
LDAP
XML
Topic Management via the WWW
( 10/12/96)
Here you will get info about how ANSA is building a set of tools to impose a distributed object
model onto HTTP. Its objective is to provide a CORBA based environment from which the web appears to
consist of a world of distributed CORBA objects. http://www.ansa.co.uk/ANSA/ISF/wwwCorba.html
Topic: The Internet
Theses & articles (available on the WWW)
Pointers to the theses can be found here
Topic: Miscellaneous
- Computer and Communication -links to the sections on: ADSL, ATM, CORBA, Ethernet, FCS,
FDDI, Frame Relay, HIPPI, HTML, IEEE, 1394, IP Next Generation, ISDN, Macintosh, MIME,
MPEG, MPI, ODBC, SCI, SCSI, SMDS, SONET, STEP, TCP, Unix, USENET, Windows, xDSL
- Management of Active Networks http://www.cs.columbia.edu/dcc/anm/anetmgmt.htm
Magazines and Publications
Magazines/Newsletters
Company technical journals:
Books and lists of books and consultancy reports
Recommended Books ()
-
Telecommunications Network management into the 21st Century,
edited by Salah Aidarous, Thomas Plevyak, IEEE Press,
ISBN 0-7803-1013-6
- The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide, (links to a book outline)
R.Orfali, D.Harkey, J.Edwards, Wiley,
ISBN 0-471-12993-3 - (See outlines of all Orfall=i books here)
- Essential Client/Server Survival Guide.
Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.
- ESSENTIAL CORBA, The: System Integration Using Distributed Objects.
Thomas J. Mowbray, PhD and Ron Zahavi. Published by John Wiley and Object Management
Group. 1995
- The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on OSI,
Marshall T. ROSE, Prentice-Hall,
ISBN 0-13-643016-3
- The Simple Book: An Introduction to Management of TCP/IP-based internets,
Marshall T. ROSE, Prentice-Hall, 1994
ISBN 0-13-812611-9
- SNMP, SNMPv2 and CMIP: The Practical Guide to Network Management Standards,
(first ed. had errors - errata on-line at aw.com /pub/SNMP.errata)
William Stallings, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, Inc. 1993
ISBN 0-201-63331-0
- SNMP, SNMPv2 and RMON: Practical Network Management,
Second Edition
William Stallings, Addison-Wesley, 1996
ISBN 0-201-63479-1
- A Technical Strategy: Implementing TMN using OMNIPoint,
Network Management Forum.
- Management of telecommunications Systems and Services - Modelling and Implementing
TMN-Based Multi-Domain Management
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1116, ISBN 3-540-61578-4, 1996
(Note that this book describes the lessons learned from the RACE PREPARE project managed
by Broadcom - Some copies remain at Broadcom - please contact M.Lamont +353 1 604 6000)
- "Networks and Systems Management Platforms Analysis and Evaluation" by Iosif G. Ghetie
, Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), Piscataway, NJ, USA
- For a list of communications organisations - see
- The site for computer/telecoms links: Computer and Communication Entry Page or
Computer and Communication Organizations and Computer and Communication Standards.
Organisations (Industry)
red indicates particularly applicable organisations.
- The 3GPP
organisation is defining standards for 3rd generation mobile systems
- The ADSL Forum
- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI: How to use the ANSI Catalog)
- The ATIS Committees Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions ATIS Sponsored Committees (including
T1M1)
- The ATM Forum
- The Committee on Network Operation and Management
- The DMTF -
Distributed Management Task Force
- The European Telecommunications Standards Institute - ETSI Standards
- Eurescom - an organisation of European operators - See on-line Information Models.
- FIPA - the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents
- The IEEE has IEEE Communications Socity which addresses: among others
- Communications Software, Communication Switching ,Communications Systems Integration and Modeling,
Computer Communications, Enterprise Networking( and here), Gigabit Networking, Information
Infrastructure, Interconnections in High-Speed Digital Systems, Internet, Multimedia Communications, Network
Operations & Management
- The International Standards Organisation (ISO)
- The IETF and IETF working groups
- The International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
- The Network Management Forum (OMNIPoint 1 Specifications)
- The Object Management Group
- The TINA-Consortium
- The Photonics Networks Forum
- The SONET Interoperability Forum
- The Telecom Managers Association - a British Group
- The Telecommunications Industry Association
- The Telecommunications Industry Forum - Sponsored by Bellcore.
- The Telecommunications Library
- The Telecommunications Managers Association(U.K.)
- The UMTS Forum
- The United States Telephone Association
- The 3GPP - 3rd
generation Mobile
Commercial organisations - suppliers
See also sections below on Commercial Information - Press Releases, newsfeeds, software, platforms and
applications.
- Directory of suppliers according to category including
- Network and System Management, Internetwork Management Platforms and Platform Applications, Web-Based
Management, Internet/Intranet and Web Site Management, Performance Management and Event Correlation, Network
Monitors and Analyzers, Service-Level Management, Asset Management Software, Trouble Ticketing and Help Desk
Management
- Directory of suppliers with info sorted by category:
Commercial Information, press releases
Newsfeeds
- The opennms initiative ( http://opennms.org)
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Good list of (IP) Network Monitoring Tools http://www-spires.slac.stanford.edu/~cottrell/tcom/nmtf-tools.html
- OpenSource SNMP toolkit (formerly UCD's SNMP) - http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
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Linux SNMP Network Management Tools @ http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html
- Free CORBA tools, implementations etc.
- SNMP stack in Java from West
- XoJIDM specification translation (ST) spec based SNMP-SMI-->IDL translator, you can download it from
http://nsm.research.bell-labs.com/~mazum/CorbaSnmp/
- SNMP++ API - Specification and Implementation free from HP!
- SNMP tools at UCDavis
- Book: "Networks and Systems Management Platforms Analysis and Evaluation" by Iosif G. Ghetie , Bell
Communications Research (Bellcore), Piscataway, NJ, USA
- Network Management Resources (http://www.adventnet.com/java-nm-resources.html)
- Free Software at Buffalo.
- ILOG's "Telecom graphic objects for telecommunications and data network management"
- Subject: Webbin' CMIP Technology Release
Blurb: Using the IBM Webbin' CMIP Technology release you can write simple yet powerful applications and
applets exploiting the services provided by Liaison. Additionally, you can browse your local CMIP and SNMP
resources using your favorite Web browser.The IBM Webbin' CMIP Technology release can be downloaded
from: http://misa.zurich.ibm.com/Webbin/
- IRTNMS (Interactive Real-Time Telecommunications Network Management System) IRTNMSis a prototype
software system developed for Telstra (Australia) to assist...
- Public domain implementations of OSI management systems
- An index of SNMP tools/software is maintained by Bruce Barnett - details on SNMP FAQ (part 1):
comp.protocols.snmp (part 1),
- WinSNMP
- An index of OSI managemnet tools/software is detailed in SNMP FAQ part 2: comp.protocols.snmp (part 2)
- Recommended: Technical University of Braunschweig http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/ibr/projects/nm/
- SMILE - Tool to implement/support CORBA/CMIP/SNMP interworking
- MODERES is a set of Java packages for loading, parsing and manipulating
various types of information model specifications (SNMP, GDMO/ASN.1, GRM, CIM
MOF, ...) - http://www.loria.fr/equipes/resedas/JSMAN/Moderes/index.html
- WWW Virtual Library - all conferences incuding Computer Science including: Agents, Communications, Databases and Knowledge
Bases, Data Warehouses, Decision Support Systems, Distributed Systems, Electronic Commerce, Geographic Information Systems,
Internet, Object-Oriented Technology, Real-Time Systems, Simulation, Virtual Environments,Visualization
- Internet Conferences (a different list to the above)
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